Gradsearch
Date of Foundation
2023

Gradsearch

Innovative Early-Career Recruitment Platform

The Idea origin story

Gradsearch is an AI-powered job platform exclusively for early-career professionals aspiring to enter the Middle Eastern job market. Our advanced solution specifically addresses an underserved need in the region, filling a significant market gap, and delivering value to all stakeholders. This makes us a trailblazer in supporting the early career stage in the Middle East.

The Mission

Facilitating and promoting the accessibility of opportunity to early careers regionally

Clients

Gradsearch as mentioned is a comprehensive platform. We have 4 key stakeholders, early careers professionals (candidates), employers, universities and experts.

Problems we solve

Client’s problem

Gradsearch solves various problems for each stakeholder involved. From the perspective of Candidates, Gradsearch provides accessibility to opportunitity, in one centralised platform. It provides employers a huge time saving, and universities value added services to their careers.

Confirmation of problem

The problem is critical as early-career professionals face hurdles accessing opportunities in the Middle East due to reliance on networking.

Solution

The solution we offer at our startup is a holistic early-career recruitment platform, titled Gradsearch. This innovative platform provides a centralized access point for job opportunities to early career professionals, saving significant time for employers and adding value for universities by ultimately enhancing the

Our technologies

This solution is based on technologies

Our startup, Gradsearch, is a trailblazing AI-powered job platform tailored for budding professionals entering the Middle Eastern job market. We aim to boost accessibility of opportunities at this pivotal career stage. Serving as a key facilitator between candidates, employers, universities and experts, we address unique challenges faced by each stakeholder. Candidates get exposure to numerous opportunities in one place while employers save time locating ideal entry-level talent. Universities also benefit through value-added services that amplify their reach and impact on early-career

How it works

It is a web based platform which facilitates career opportunities and is an end-to-end platform where all stakeholders can meet and engage on

Value for the client

Our platform grants candidates access to prime jobs, allows universities to boost their offerings, and helps employers hire young talent efficiently.

Market and strategy

Market size

mln/year

We estimate the market size for which our solution is designed in monetary terms as follows

Market share goal

% of the market

Is our goal in the next 3 years

Team

My name’s

Omar El Moshalgi

My key role in the product

My key role is Founder and CEO, making me responsible for setting the company's strategy, building our team, and ensuring financial health.

Team size and key members

Mohamed Fansa - Co founder, COO and CPO. He manages all things related to product and internal operations

Competitors

Competitors

We compete with platforms like Ripplematch, Oliv, Wayup, Handshake, Jobteaser and Qureos. However our focus on early-career recruitment sets us apart and gives us an edge in the market.

Our Advantages

Our platform is comprehensive, everything can be done through our platform without the need to redirect, all the way from sourcing to hiring. Our candidate will also have strategic partnerships, and have first movers advantage in the region.

Business model

We charge subscription and a per usage based models. Clients pay for the ability to use the platform either on a per-usage basis, or per size basis

Traction

We've successfully developed our Minimum Viable Product and currently, we're fine-tuning it to a commercial-ready stage. As this dynamic process evolves, we are on the brink of executing a pilot launch in the market.

Metrics

Our key product metrics are Monthly Active Users (MAUs), counting the number of live listings, conversion rates keeping track user purchases, retention rate indicating customer loyalty to our platform. We also consider average session duration and successful employment rates as significant indicators.

Incorporation

Our company incorporated in

Key risks

That the platform does not pick up in traction and initial response and feedback on the platform is not good, therefore it is not a viable business.

Investments

$

We raised investments

Our Investors

Rising Investments

$

Currently, we are raising investments

$

Estimated pre-investment valuation of the company

We’re looking for a co-founders

Open positions

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Additional information

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